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Stone

Stone is what holds.
Where Seed carries potential and Garden blooms with life, Stone anchors.
It is the solid crystallisation of pattern, weight that endures change.
Stone is both foundation and obstacle: the lattice that can be built upon, or the mass that must be moved.

Shape (What it is)

Foundation Block: base for building, grounding into Garden.
Crystallised Lattice: repeating pattern hardened into permanence.
Marker: boundary, altar, or milestone — presence made durable.

Stone is form fixed in matter.

Motion (How it moves)

Set: falls into place, stabilising the field.
Endure: resists erosion, holds memory across time.
Weather: slowly shaped by Garden and Field, yielding new form.

Stone is slow motion — change stretched across centuries.

Micro-Recursions

Word as Stone: a phrase that fixes truth, immovable in memory.
Habit Stone: practice hardened into unchanging ritual.
Body Stone: weight carried in stillness, grounding presence.

Macro-Recursions

Monuments: stones raised as cultural lattice, enduring beyond builders.
Geological Time: mountains as stones of Earth, Garden of rock.
Cosmic Stones: planets crystallised as foundations of orbiting life.

Ethics (What it refuses)

Fragility Posed as Strength: stone that crumbles at first touch is illusion.
Overweight Stagnation: foundation turned burden prevents growth.
Forgetting Weather: denying that even stone changes is hubris.

Practices

Foundation Audit: name the stones you stand on — beliefs, values, anchors.
Erosion Witness: attend to what time has softened; release attachment to permanence.
Stone Offering: place or mark a stone to crystallise an intention into Garden.

Mapping to Core Glyphs:

Garden — Stone anchors the living field, shaping where growth takes root.
Lattice — repetition hardened into crystal; Stone is pattern enduring.